Big shot: Steve Makin of TalkTalk

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His first directorship was with Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah in Leeds in
2004 and now Steve Makin has become the chief financial officer of TalkTalk.
There’s a theme there, somewhere. There’s one, too, in his switch into the
broadband industry, because he is following Dido Harding, TalkTalk’s chief
executive, once a rising star at Tesco and then Sainsbury’s, in making the
jump from the high street to high-speed internet.

Mr Makin, 43, worked his way up the ranks at Asda to lead the £100 million
drive to revamp its stores before its